>>Please note that alt.folklore.urban is not an archaeology group.>>Posts of 500+ lines of which 80% is quoted text do nothing for me >>personally and waste bandwidth on the grand scale when they are >>distributed thoughtlessly

>Aside from the fact the discussion would have been a bit difficult to follow >if the items at issue were not referenced, and that when it come to wasting>bandwidth there are 1389 separate articles just in this group alone, how does >it save bandwidth to make a frivolous follow up?

Because the frilovous follow-up might, just might (I'm being wildly
optimistic here), result in someone not crossposting future articles
of this sort to alt.folklore.urban & several other unrelated groups.

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